First major Windows Phone 7 update due in late 2011 according to report

According to a report from ZDNet’s All About Microsoft blog, the first major update (codenamed Mango) to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform isn’t due until August or September of next year. A second major update (codenamed Apollo) is said to be due a year later, toward the end of 2012. This contradicts earlier reports, though it does jibe with rumors from last week suggesting Microsoft’s initial WP7 update in January would not be as major as was once believed. While All About Microsoft’s source claims this will be WP7’s first major update, the only functionality mentioned by the anonymous tipster is the addition of a Silverlight plug-in and HTML5 support in Internet Explorer. Meanwhile, an update supposedly due in February may bring a multitasking solution for third-party apps, enhanced developer controls, in-app downloads and more customization options. That sounds slightly more “major” to us.

So its gonna be fruits in no particular order?
I hope there are still minor updates sporadically, because as awesome as wp7 is, its still lacking some important features.
And pardon me for not dropping a phirst

Anonymous

Exactly. The number one missing feature: “sales.”

FYI. . .it would do you well to learn and understand the difference between “its” and “it’s”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiQmQhA-OrM Walter Sobchak

I can’t get mad because I myself, am a grammar nazi.
Possession of it has no apostrophe. Contraction of it is does. I give others a hard time for being lazy, and never use short hand personally. However Swype doesn’t add in the apostrophe for me on some words. I apologize if I made your eyes bleed.
Thanks for lighting a fire under my butt, I forgot how utterly annoyed I get when others aren’t exactly Elizabethan.

sirpaul

nazi –> Nazi :)
You looked cold ;) “Your” welcome :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiQmQhA-OrM Walter Sobchak

@Sirpaul
As a Jew I will never capitalize nazi. It is not proper!

Anonymous

Oh Walterrrrrrr, I never thought of you as Elizabethan; a bit Temüjin perhaps.
And, I’m glad you admit [finally] to being a Nazi.

Mgl323

Looking forward to see how Windows Phone 7 matures.

Yankees07

I’m looking forward to buying a wp7 in July. I’m personally a zune user and can’t wait to stream unlimited music to my phone. I hope that wp7 will have matured well at that point. Most important at this point would have to be multitasking so games don’t have to reload every time you go back into a game.

http://twitter.com/dustbeta Dustin Schultz

I just want WP7 to come to Sprint with a global roaming phone. Unfortunately the HTC 7 Pro is not Pro at all and does not have that feature. Come on device manufacturers!

But looking forward to the updates very much, looks like a bright future ahead.

http://www.facebook.com/cameronlee.ya Cameron Lee

I think good html5 support is really important. Having web-apps that work great on Android, iOS, Windows Pone 7 and any other smartphone browser for that matter would be sweet.

Rbmccaslin

Too little too late. While I do like how wm7 is layed out, It should have baked for a little longer until It could compete with features already polished on iOS and android.

Anonymous

The problem with that is they would still be behind the 8 ball, iOS and Android are adding features all the time so you gotta just throw it out there at some point and accept your behind.